Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my day we had taxis or Beetles or the old-style Escorts and Australians always had VW Dormobiles . |
| 2 | He could imagine that the walls had once been lined with an array of expensive paintings or tapestries and the wooden floorboards covered with elegant , sculpted carpeting . |
| 3 | One only has to note the impressive erudition manipulated by the likes of Borges , Cortázar , Carpentier or Fuentes or the intertextual references that abound in the new narrative to realize that the Spanish-American writer has long since ceased to be a provincial and is now very much a citizen of the world . |
| 4 | So for example helping a school-age child find safe places for precious toys or possessions that the younger child can not reach is important , but in addition making clear that any physical aggression from either age group is not acceptable . |
| 5 | The condition is treated with sulphonamides or tetracyclines and the inguinal bubo may be aspirated or drained before it bursts . |
| 6 | This provides a valuable feedback loop , in one sense , which forces the ‘ teacher ’ to seek more appropriate methods or goals if the first strategies are not successful . |
| 7 | It may be years , if ever , before the symbols of the three largest organisations , the Soil Association , Organic Farmers & Growers or the Scottish Organic Producers ' Association , are superseded by an EC symbol . |
| 8 | Superstition occurs when the distinction between the outer action or words and the inner meaning or purpose is forgotten . |
| 9 | A sale of Impressionist and Modern art in Madrid on 24 March was the least successful of any sale organised by Edmund Peel & Asociados since the Spanish auction house was founded four years ago . |
| 10 | If , however , a definite association were to be found between the occurrence of skin cancers or miscarriages and the continued use of computer monitors , then computer manufacturers and importers who continued to make or sell equipment giving off such dangerous emissions would be liable under the Act . |
| 11 | The former were either cast separately or as lines or blocks while the optical versions were engraved on glass disks or photographically produced on strips of film . |
| 12 | It is appropriate therefore to examine more fully the pressures or tensions that the professional librarian is faced with in questions of censorship , and to look for their resolution in terms of the Code of Professional Conduct . |
| 13 | The decision to make this process possible by the foundation of colleges or universities and the financial maintenance of students has been taken , down through the ages , by the sources of munificence in each succeeding period , until in our own day the lion 's share is produced through public funds voted by central government and local authorities . |
| 14 | Be prepared to demonstrate by telling a story yourself and playing it back , or it may be diplomatic to start by recording what the local people want , such as dance music or hymns or the local chief exhorting his people . |
| 15 | Under the latest settlement , which follows large payments to other syndicates , Mr Outhwaite will be entitled to reimbursement from Murray Lawrence & Partners if the eventual claims level falls below $62million . |
| 16 | The qualifications are awarded by established examining bodies like City & Guilds and the Royal Society of Arts ( RSA ) and now jointly by City & Guilds and the Association of Ceramic Training Development ( ACTD ) . |
| 17 | With iron gords , or hoops as the rich people called them , and with clashes and tensions no less thrilling and dangerous than the real thing , we competitively raced until we dropped . |
| 18 | Disclose separately extraordinary income or charges and the net extraordinary profit or loss and tax on the extraordinary profit or loss on the face of the profit and loss account or in a note . |
| 19 | Disclose separately extraordinary income or charges and the extraordinary profit or loss and tax on the extraordinary profit or loss on the face of the profit and loss account or in a note . |
| 20 | So images of organizations that are more like symphony orchestras or hospitals or the British Raj are surely nothing more than metaphors to express a desired feeling of togetherness — the togetherness produced by a conductor 's baton , the shared concern of doctors and nurses for their patients , or the apparent unity of the British civil service in India . |
| 21 | But by far his main task on this story was the designing of the Mechonoids , or Mechons as the first scripts called them . |
| 22 | Rather like those nineteenth-century American ladies who often found it easier to fight for slaves , or Indians , or heathens or The Poor than for themselves . |
| 23 | This is more than skills because the total expertise will include also rules , knowledge and contextual information . |
| 24 | Within the community they made no attempt to ape the gentry , were accorded no special title , and yet enjoyed ‘ a certeine preheminence , and more estimation than labourers & the common sort of artificers ’ . |
| 25 | LEFT Through archaeology it possible to find out many details about ancient settlements , so that houses and the general landscape can be reconstructed fairly accurately . |
| 26 | Trustees of Ferranti family shareholdings in the company wrote back saying there was an urgent need to reinforce the board so that proposals and the inevitable approaches that the company would receive could be reviewed by a strengthened board . |
| 27 | He tackled the first by systematically awarding government contracts to northern businessmen ( former traders ) from his own area of Garoua and the second by insisting that schools and the civil service must be bilingual , a policy which has been extremely successful . |
| 28 | It is not , therefore , unexpected that governments since the last war in this country have confined their efforts largely to this aspect of equality . |
| 29 | The system will be based on a network of anti-pollution equipment in strategic locations around the globe , backed up by a training programme to ensure that governments and the various oil industries are well-equipped to cope with an accident . |
| 30 | Aggregate demand = Aggregate supply Only when this condition is satisfied can we say that the total value of goods and services that households and the other economic agents want to buy is equal to the total value that firms want to produce . |